克劳德·麦凯

费斯图斯·克劳迪乌斯·“克劳德”·麦凯 OJ（Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay，）是一名牙买加裔美国作家、诗人，哈莱姆文艺复兴重要人物。他出生于牙买加，在美国读书并在1914年移民纽约市，1919年写下成名作《如果我们必须死》（If We Must Die）。

生平
他出生于牙买加克拉倫登區的一个富有农民家庭，是家里最小的儿子，父母都是坚定的浸信会信徒，父亲托马斯有阿善堤人血统，母亲汉娜的祖上来自马达加斯加。

参考文献

扩展阅读
 Cooper, Wayne F. (1987). Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
 Gosciak, Josh (2006). The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
 James, Winston (2001). A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion. London: Verso. .
 Müller, Timo (2013). "Postcolonial Pursuits in African American Studies: The Later Poems of Claude McKay." Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines . Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 131–49.
 Tillery, Tyrone (1992). Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity. University of Massachusetts Press.

外部链接

 Profile and poems of Claude McKay  at the Poetry Foundation.
 Harlem Shadows: An Electronic Edition  Full text of McKay's 1922 collection of poems (including "America", "December 1919", "Enslaved", "Harlem Shadows", "If We Must Die", "On Broadway", "Romance", "The Tropics in New York") as well as early reviews.
 Claude McKay Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
 
 
 "Claude McKay and the New Negro of the 1920s"  at the University of Illinois.
 FBI file on Claude McKay at the Internet Archive

非洲裔美国作家
非洲裔美国诗人
牙買加裔美國人
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